Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [unc] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah well it gives you the chance to get , to increase the rent if you er but if you 're happy with them as operators er you can boost your income for the year . |
| 2 | Oh , usually er for bedrooms er they , they would have erm |
| 3 | Before I do that let me just digress and say one word about books , I 've had a few people ask me about books erm I gather that the distinguished Durham bookshops have sold out of my wonderful book but I gather that lorries are hurtling up motorways with |
| 4 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 5 | So I think caution is erm very important in buying a computer , and if you wait a couple of months erm you wo n't have done any harm , because something newer and more beautiful is always on the way . |
| 6 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 7 | Yeah I 've learnt a lot basically , I 've learnt erm erm basically what sort of organization that is and those other ones I could mention as well which run along the same sort of lines erm I 've learnt to look after myself |
| 8 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 9 | And er there 's quite a number of years h he , there was many bicycle shops in Galashiels when the new safety bike came in , and blacksmiths probably did n't bother doing any work on them . |
| 10 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 11 | Once you got into the C C Q erm for me it sounded like a string of questions erm I could n't hear any at all or any open questions into any of the answers that were given to you on question . |
| 12 | Our response to it was of course that er since the Post Office was re released from the Civil Service in nineteen sixty-nine to trustee , to pen the trustees , there 's been a minimum amount of trustees er I can recollect on those on the funds and we 've not had any problem . |
| 13 | That 's in their division five couple of seasons la we could be fourth division team . |
| 14 | What about the range of concessions of pensioners erm you know , free tea and coffee ? |
| 15 | Right , I think I know what it is and there 's a forest of hands erm they know what it is . |
| 16 | Erm I think really for Mr to talk about washing of hands er he 's got some brass neck when I remember every year , every year I mean hopefully he wo n't be able to do this next year , what does he say it 's your budget and he looks over there your budget , you implement it . |
| 17 | We 're there for , to give the help and advice that people need on the day to day living , er because a person with say with a respiratory illness , er would need a lot of benefits er they , their lifestyle has to change , and often their home and adaptation has to change with , around it . |
| 18 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 19 | Testing for these sort of systems erm we had to decide which of these responses is best . |
| 20 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 21 | The business about sparklers erm it is one of those things where the very young children like to hold a sparkler but it has got to be done under proper supervised conditions . |
| 22 | I just think it 's wrong because every day a tiny bit the ground loo looks much much better than if I do n't give them for weeks an they do , well . |
| 23 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 24 | This is the trouble with families int it ? |
| 25 | um yeah erm yeah it may be um given that you 've er kind of er divided it up into into sections erm I think er maybe you could you could adopt a slightly different format for a different section or something like that so people y'know kind of get into section two and it 's a wee bit different , it 's a wee bit more er y'know |
| 26 | We shall have a four work sell-in to the trade via representatives er they will have funds available to purchase shelf facings in supermarkets , cash and carries if necessary . |
| 27 | its settings for mouse let's have a look in drivers erm you have n't got a mouse , have you ? |
| 28 | Erm you 're talking about people working outside in elements er you know , natural elements such as might be brought to bear in the month of January or February . |
| 29 | I think I agree with the gentleman over there I think the youth of this particular town who on average spends somewhere in the region of fifteen and twenty pounds a week going to Highwire and going to pubs erm you need the attraction to the theatre . |
| 30 | When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets |